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RUSH: Now, here\u2019s Wayne Huizenga. Wayne Huizenga this morning on Bloomberg News, the correspondent Lizzie O\u2019Leary interviewed Huizenga. She said, ‘You would not have objected to Limbaugh being an owner in the NFL?\u2019<\/p>\n

HUIZENGA: No. I mean, Rush, wouldn\u2019t bother me a bit if he was in just like it wouldn\u2019t bother me if Obama was an owner. There\u2019s a vast difference of opinion in the NFL as it is today in all sports. I mean, you know, there\u2019s Republicans and there\u2019s Democrats and there\u2019s people that don\u2019t have any allegiance. And so I think Rush would have been fine. You asked me a question, would I have objected? No, I would not have objected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wayne Huizenga, who still owns 5% of the Miami Dolphins. And full disclosure, I know Wayne. We\u2019ve socialized together. I told the broadcast engineer, ‘I don\u2019t want you to play sound bite number three,\u2019 but I have an interesting story about Marshall Faulk. I don\u2019t want to waste time telling the story, but it\u2019s a funny little story about the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament. Last night on ESPN they talked to John Clayton and asked, ‘Okay, the status now, the Checketts bid with Limbaugh gone.\u2019<\/p>\n

CLAYTON: Well, because he\u2019s reacted to the public I think in a better spot, and also if he can pull in a Marshall Faulk, somebody that would be very dear to St. Louis Rams fans, that\u2019s going to help out. So I do think he\u2019s in a better spot today than he was yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If they get Marshall Faulk in the group it\u2019s obviously going to help \u2019em, but let me tell you a little Marshall Faulk story. This was three years ago now, I think, the years run together, but I took a bunch of buddies of mine out to Palm Springs and we played in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and it\u2019s a week long thing and it\u2019s a five day tournament with the amateurs playing the first four days. And every night you go out to dinner somewhere, and I grabbed my buddies, there were three of them, plus my security detail, and we\u2019d ask the Bob Hope organizers to give us a good restaurant name, they gave us an Italian place so we went there and they put us in a small back room and there are only four other groups in there and one of the groups was Marshall Faulk and a bunch of his friends. So we sat down and we started having dinner and talking and there\u2019s a table of five women and a table of six or seven guys and women, couples, total maybe eight people there. <\/p>\n

So after about a half hour, I said to my buddies, ‘I\u2019m going to go over and say hello to Marshall Faulk.\u2019 So I went over to Marshall Faulk and said, ‘Hey Marshall, Rush Limbaugh,\u2019 and he had this blank look on his face. ‘Hey Marshall, it\u2019s Rush Limbaugh, and I just want to tell you I really admire your work.\u2019 He has retired from the NFL. And he looked at me and was polite, but non-interested, uninterested. So I went back to the table, I said, ‘You know, I think I just got dissed here by Marshall Faulk. I just went over there to tell him how much I admire his work and so forth and he acted like he didn\u2019t know who I am,\u2019 which might have been the case. So at that point one of my buddies said, ‘Well, let\u2019s show him who you are.\u2019 One of my buddies went over to the table of the five women and said, ‘We\u2019d like to buy you a drink.\u2019 And the women said, ‘No, Limbaugh can buy us one but you can\u2019t.\u2019 So I smiled, I went over to the table, and they all wanted pictures, and I\u2019m sitting on their laps and they\u2019re sitting on my lap taking pictures and then the other table, once I had gotten out of the table and said, ‘okay I\u2019ll do some pictures,\u2019 they all wanted pictures and Faulk and his buddies were in the corner, ‘What the hell is going on? This Rush guy, what\u2019s going on in here?\u2019 Because nobody was asking Marshall Faulk for a photo or anything. <\/p>\n

So the next morning I\u2019m on the putting green and Marshall Faulk is walking by, he\u2019s in the group ahead of me with — well, I think he\u2019s with Marcus Allen, who is a friend of mine, former Chiefs and Raiders running back. Marcus Allen, you remember that vocabulary program of one of our early sponsors? Verbal Advantage, yeah, before he quit the Chiefs he wanted to go into broadcasting, and he was a listener. Bob Chandler was a good friend of his, who is now the late Bob Chandler, wide receiver for the Raiders and the Buffalo Bills, played with O.J. Marshall walks by, stops and looks at me and says, ‘Rush, huh?\u2019 (laughing) It was nice, don\u2019t misunderstand. It was just one of those fun times that you have when you\u2019re out with your buddies at a golf — (interruption) what are you saying, Dawn? Shaking your head. Hm-hm. Well, I don\u2019t know that he didn\u2019t know who I am. I have no idea that he really didn\u2019t know, but he might not have. But that\u2019s why I introduced myself to him, and, you know, told him how much I admired his work. <\/p>\n

He played with the Indianapolis Colts and then got traded I think to the St. Louis Rams. He was the best athlete on the field during his career. He was probably the greatest show on turf back in the Mike Martz, Dick Vermeil days. I remember them doing a big feature — he grew up in New Orleans and they had a Super Bowl there I think it was the Patriots in New Orleans — big feature on Marshall Faulk, took him back to his neighborhood, relived where he\u2019d come from and so forth, and it might have been ESPN or NBC, I forget which. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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